Sorriest technology companies of 2014

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	Sorriest technology companies of 2014   It's so far been another sorry, sorry year in the technology industry, with big name companies, hot startups and individuals making public mea culpas for their assorted dumb, embarrassing and other regrettable actions.Here's a rundown of the Year in Apologies to date, and somehow I have a feeling it will need to be updated before Dec. 31. (Also: 2013 and 2012 Sorriest Tech company lists.)But first, a little mood music, courtesy of Bob Mould, performing "I Apologize" in Boston while I was working on this collection:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Ixia Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. View now In this Issue iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too INSIDER Review: New Gigabit Wi-Fi options for enterprise, SMB, SOHO Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd: Our IP will help us win in the cloud CEO indicted for company's alleged mobile spyware app Cisco pumping $1 billion more into Intercloud IT skills that are in demand, and those that will be New products of the week 09.29.2014 The FBI's big, bad identification system WHITE PAPER: Symantec Archiving benefits more than just email Many organizations assume archiving is mostly related to email and compliance; however, archiving is associated with a wide range of business improvements. This ESG paper covers the real reasons companies archive, as well as the business value that can be achieved through archiving. Learn moire iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know Some advice on how to make iOS 8 work for you. Read More   Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too Rackspace is in the process of rebooting a substantial portion of its cloud servers before Oct. 1, most likely to patch a security vulnerability in the Xen open source hypervisor. Rackspace announced the move on Friday, a day after Amazon Web Services confirmed that it would be rebooting about 10% of its global Elastic Compute Cloud servers. Although neither company has released many details as to the reason for the reboots, Amazon too is believed to be patching a Xen security vulnerability.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER Review: New Gigabit Wi-Fi options for enterprise, SMB, SOHO Last year, we reviewed two 802.11ac access points and six 802.11ac adapters. Earlier this year, we reviewed five mobile 802.11ac devices. Now we take a look at five more 802.11ac devices that have hit the market: four access points and one wireless bridge.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd: Our IP will help us win in the cloud Though Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd's title may have changed recently, his job running the company's sales and support operations really hasn't. But he does have a whole lot more to sell and support these days, and it's all in the cloud.Oracle is using the occasion of its annual OpenWorld conference to rev up the hype around its cloud strategy, which spans from SaaS (software as a service) to PaaS (platform as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service). Hurd spoke to IDG News Service briefly before the event. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   CEO indicted for company's alleged mobile spyware app The CEO of a Pakistani company has been indicted in the U.S. for selling a product called StealthGenie that buyers could use to monitor calls, texts, videos and other communications on other people's mobile phones, the U.S. Department of Justice said.The indictment of Hammad Akbar, 31, of Lahore, Pakistan, represents the first time the DOJ has brought a criminal case related to the marketing and sale of an alleged mobile spyware app, the DOJ said in a press release Monday.Akbar is CEO of InvoCode, the company selling StealthGenie online. Akbar is among the creators of StealthGenie, which could intercept communications to and from mobile phones, including Apple, Android and BlackBerry devices, the DOJ said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Cisco pumping $1 billion more into Intercloud Cisco on Monday said it is expanding on its Intercloud multi-cloud service provider initiative with another $1 billion investment, designed to lead to more products, data centers and partners. Read More   IT skills that are in demand, and those that will be IT professionals seeking certifications in the coming months may get their best return with cloud and security-related certifications. Agile-related training won't hurt, either. Read More   New products of the week 09.29.2014   Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as CA and Cisco Read More   The FBI's big, bad identification system The FBI's formidable Next Generation Identification is up and running Read More
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iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know

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What corporate security pros should do about Shellshock/Bash bug Apple quickly issues iOS 8.0.2 update Network World Daily News AM September 26, 2014 iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know Some advice on how to make iOS 8 work for you. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. What corporate security pros should do about Shellshock/Bash bug 2. Apple quickly issues iOS 8.0.2 update 3. INSIDER SDS still young, but very much on the rise 4. Cisco names new security chief after Young departs 5. Forget passwords -- the Nymi wristband uses your heartbeat for security 6. White House blames IT systems for immigration data problems 7. Apple's rotten week: Bent phones, broken software, and shattered security 8. BlackBerry Passport deep-dive review: Qwerty meets quirky 9. Intel investing $1.5 billion in two Chinese chip firms 10. New ad-free social network Ello is pro-privacy, but with caveats 11. Symantec names Michael Brown as new CEO 12. FBI director concerned about encryption on smartphones 13. New products of the week 09.22.2014 WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Enterprise Cloud Deployment Strategies Three primary cloud deployment strategies are available today for enterprise software—public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. However, many vendors force enterprises to choose between data security or cloud deployment flexibility; they're either unable or unwilling to give the enterprise both. Learn More What corporate security pros should do about Shellshock/Bash bug Shellshock/Bash bug exploits can force compromised servers to act as bots and, depending on the types of privileges the servers have, attackers can make them do a lot worse so corporate security pros should patch important affected machines as soon as possible. READ MORE Apple quickly issues iOS 8.0.2 update Late Thursday, Apple issued the iOS 8.0.2 update, which follows quickly on the heels of the flawed-and-quickly-pulled 8.0.1 update that disabled Touch ID and cellular capabilities on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. This latest update not only addresses these issues but reinstates the improvements and fixes initially found in iOS 8.0.1. They include: Addresses an issue where third-party keyboards could become deselected when a user enters their passcode.Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from accessing photos from the Photo Library.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER SDS still young, but very much on the rise Anything "software-defined"-- networks, storage, data centers--is grabbing a lot of attention these days. Security is no exception. Software-defined security (SDS) is an emerging model in which information security is deployed, controlled and managed by software. With SDS, security controls such as network segmentation, intrusion detection and access control are automated and monitored via software. READ MORE Cisco names new security chief after Young departs Cisco has replaces its security leadership after the departure of Senior Vice President Chris Young.David Goeckeler, a 14 year Cisco veteran, has been chosen as vice-president of the Security Business Group effective immediately. Young has "decided to leave Cisco," according to this blog post from Pankaj Patel, Cisco executive vice president and chief development officer.+MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Cisco gains strength in next-gen firewalls via Sourcefire code+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Guidance Software The Total Economic Impact Of EnCase® Cybersecurity Forrester Consulting conducted an analysis of the net benefit a global automobile manufacturer realized from the use of EnCase Cybersecurity. The research applied risk-adjusted calculations to the ROI and net benefits experienced in order to provide realistic expectations of the total economic impact that organizations can achieve. Learn more Forget passwords -- the Nymi wristband uses your heartbeat for security Imagine one day strapping on a wristband in the morning and then opening your smartphone and laptop without passwords, getting into your car without a key and even boarding a plane without your ID or a boarding pass.That's the future imagined by Andrew D'Souza, president of Bionym Inc., a Toronto-based company working on what he says will be the world's first wearable authentication device.D'Souza talked about the Nymi, which verifies a person's identity using their unique heart beat, at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference in Cambridge this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE White House blames IT systems for immigration data problems The White House has been touting open data initiatives for years. But in one of the most controversial areas in politics -- immigration -- crucial data is often unavailable, and what's available often includes mistakes, say a diverse set of critics.The IEEE-USA is a case in point. The group has been trying for nearly two years to discover how many H-1B visa holders are male. It believes men get as many as 85% of the visas, a percentage that can help explain the lopsided male and female ratios at visa-hiring companies such as Facebook (69% male), and Google (70% male).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Apple's rotten week: Bent phones, broken software, and shattered security The only magic in Apple land this week is black magic. READ MORE BlackBerry Passport deep-dive review: Qwerty meets quirky Let's give it this: BlackBerry's new Passport makes a big impact when you first hold it, thanks to its unusual square shape, its heft and the physical keyboard aimed at keeping its legion of qwerty loyalists happy.BlackBerry no longer discloses how large its installed base of smartphone users remains, but it's probably still in the tens of millions worldwide simply because many older users love having a familiar qwerty keyboard. BlackBerry's first touchscreen phone, the Z10, was introduced in January 2013 and didn't sell well for various reasons, but the absence of a physical keyboard was considered one major factor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence How Moving Your Contact Center to the Cloud Eliminates Risk The total cost of ownership (TCO) debate between a premises and cloud decision continues to wage on. Depending on how you look at it, it seems that you arrive at a different conclusion. However, the missing factor in nearly all cloud contact center and unified communications TCO discussions is the consideration of buyer risk. Learn More Intel investing $1.5 billion in two Chinese chip firms Intel is investing 9 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) in two Chinese chip companies with an eye to boosting its presence in the country's booming mobile phone market.The two fabless semiconductor companies develop mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products, which support 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards, Intel said Friday.The U.S. chipmaker will acquire a minority stake of about 20 percent in a holding company which will own the chip firms - Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics.The two chip companies have links to the state. The holding company, in which Intel is investing, is being set up under Tsinghua Unigroup, an operating subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings, which is a solely state-owned company funded by Tsinghua University in China. Tsinghua Unigroup said in July it had acquired RDA for $907 million.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE New ad-free social network Ello is pro-privacy, but with caveats The site still gathers certain types of data about users READ MORE Symantec names Michael Brown as new CEO The company is trying to reverse a decline with the slide of the PC market READ MORE FBI director concerned about encryption on smartphones The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned about moves by Apple and Google to include encryption on smartphones, the agency's director said Thursday.Quick law enforcement access to the contents of smartphones could save lives in some kidnapping and terrorism cases, FBI Director James Comey said in a briefing with some reporters. Comey said he's concerned that smartphone companies are marketing "something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law," according to news reports.An FBI spokesman confirmed the general direction of Comey's remarks. The FBI has contacted Apple and Google about their encryption plans, Comey told a group of reporters who regularly cover his agency.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE New products of the week 09.22.2014 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Watchguard and Airwatch READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Instart Logic A New, Better Approach for Web Experiences across Devices For media and entertainment companies intent on delivering high definition web experiences across all devices, web performance can make or break their engagement levels. Learn more>> SLIDESHOWS The wild world of workplace wearables Here are some examples of wearables coming to a variety of vertical industries. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES of 2014 1. Microsoft rolls out free Office 365 for Students, but hits activation snag 2. Apple yanks buggy iOS 8 update 3. Why Cisco lost two key officials in data center, cloud 4. iOS 8 tips and tricks you need to know 5. No, Apple's iPhone 6 Plus isn't too big 6. 10 (mostly) free Exchange admin tools 7. First Look: BlackBerry Passport 8. Networking pioneer Bob Metcalfe hails Ethernet-as-a-Service effort 9. 12 predictions for the future of programming 10. 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